D59 Class 2-8-2 Mikados

I always had a soft spot for 59 class, as they just look
like steam locos! It may also be partly due to the fact that a 59
class was the first NSW loco I saw in any detail (19 class episodes
notwithstanding). They were built by Baldwin to complement the
post-war rebuilding program, and hence are very American
looking. Originally intended to have much longer tenders, the tender
length was reduced so that they could fit on the standard NSWGR 50'
turntable.

5905

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Date : 16 Sep 1973, catalogued 21 Jul 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 3360

Description : I believe this to be 5905, but I'm not sure. Pictured at Enfield Loco.

5910

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Date : Apr 1985, catalogued 3 Feb 1997

Photographer : John Hurst

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Description : 5910 at the Rail Transport Museum, Thirlmere, after overhaul, awaiting its final coats of paint.

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Date : 1973, catalogued

Photographer : Barbara Hurst

Medium : PCD-01/083

Description : A post-and-rail fence, and ubiquitous eucalyptus trees make a rustic framework for a rusty railway locomotive. Sadly, steam locos are no longer themselves ubiquitous, and do not get posted around the rails.

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Date : 1973, catalogued 25 Feb 1997

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium :

Description : Oiling round at Waterfall. This is the same location as
3813-1
and
1709-3
.

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Date : 1973, catalogued 7 Feb 1997

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium :

Description : 5910 silhouetted against a late afternoon sky, near Yerrinbool on the Main South. This is the same location as
5910-2
, but seen from the other side of the track. Notice the gaps in the silhouette due to the open spaces between the boiler and frame, and also the fishplate holes in the (welded) rail line.

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Date : 800x600 pixels, catalogued 1973

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : 28 Feb 1998, slide number 2225

Description : 28 Feb 1998

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Date : 1973, catalogued 7 Feb 1997

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium :

Description : 5910 at Waterfall while taking water for a run to Wollongong and up the Unanderra to Moss Vale. (same occasion as
5910-3
)

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Date : Apr 1985, catalogued 21 Jan 1997

Photographer : John Hurst

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Description : A close-up of 5910's valve gear.

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Date : Jul 1973, catalogued 15 Jan 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : ?, slide number 3218

Description : 5910 has just finished pulling a special train into Central, and waits at the end of the platform for the engine release road to clear.

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Date : 1973, catalogued 28 Feb 1998

Photographer : Barbara Hurst

Medium : slide number 2243, taken on Agfacolor

Description : same location as
5910-2
, 5910 crosses an accomdation bridge near Aylmerton on the Main South

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Date : Apr 1974, catalogued 18 Oct 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 4361

Description : 5910 crosses a narrow clearance bridge en route to Bathurst with the delivery run of 5112 (the Ben Chifley loco).

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Date : Apr 1974, catalogued 01 Nov 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 4343

Description : 5910's big end, taken at Bathurst.

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Date : PCD-01/077, catalogued 01 Nov 1998

Photographer : 115835 bytes, 711x503 pixels

Medium : PCD-01/?

Description : John Hurst], [Ektachrome], [5910 shunts at Cabramatta.

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Date : PCD-01/078, catalogued 01 Nov 1998

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Medium : Ektachrome

Description : 5910 shunts at the Lidcombe brickworks sidings. Note that the engine is slipping.

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Date : PCD-01/079, catalogued 01 Nov 1998

Photographer : 57799 bytes, 703x501 pixels

Medium : PCD-01/?

Description : John Hurst], [Ektachrome], [5910 at speed along the main line through Ashfield.

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Date : 1973, catalogued 01 Nov 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, professionally transferred to CD

Description : 5910 waits in the unusual refuge sidings at Dombarton
on the Unanderra to Moss Vale line. For a more detailed
explanation of the Dombarton facilities, see the discussion at
42209-4,
and a similar (wider angle) view at 42209-7.

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Date : Aug 1985, catalogued 02 Oct 1999

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 13363

Description : 5910 waits at Goulburn station for the double 30 class to return from Crookwell for RTM passengers.

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Date : Aug 1985, catalogued 03 Oct 1999

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 13364

Description : Another shot of 5910 at Goulburn.

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Date : Aug 1985, catalogued 03 Oct 1999

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 13365

Description : Another shot of 5910 at Goulburn.

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Date : Aug 1985, catalogued 03 Oct 1999

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 13366

Description : Yet another shot of 5910 at Goulburn.

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Date : PCD-01/081, catalogued 03 Oct 1999

Photographer : 113867 bytes, 713x503 pixels

Medium : PCD-01/?

Description : John Hurst], [Ektachrome], [5910 steams past the Winton swamps between Robertson and Moss Vale, on the Unanderra-Moss Vale cross country line.

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Date : 1973, catalogued 03 Oct 1999

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Kodak Photo CD

Description : 5910 being serviced at Moss Vale.

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Date : 1997, catalogued

Photographer : Darren Yates

Medium : emailed jpeg, used with permission

Description : Darren Yates sent me this photo. He says "It's 5910 on a run through the Blue Mountains last year. Thanks for keeping an excellent archive." (Oops, I left the last bit in by mistake
.)

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Date : 1973, catalogued

Photographer : Derick Cullen

Medium : personal photo, used with permission

Description : 5910 is finished for the day, and is de-ashed at the Enfield loco depot. Scenes like this would have been much more common 20 years before this photograph was taken, but now happen only on special trips. Alas, the Enfield depot is no more either, having been bulldozed within 2 years of the photo.

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Date : 1973, catalogued

Photographer : Derick Cullen

Medium : personal photo, used with permission

Description : 5910 pauses and poses at Helensburgh, after taking a charter train there. John and Barbara Hurst also pause and pose while fellow train chaser Derick Cullen snaps the picture. NSW ferroequinologists will note that the picture has been reversed left-to-right. I did this because I use the wasteland in the foreground in which to store my desktop icons!

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Date : Jun 1973, catalogued 24 Jun 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 2710

Description : 5910 lends a helping hand to 3526 under the wires on the Blue Mountains line.

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Date : 24 Apr 2000, catalogued 27 Aug 2000

Photographer : Stewart Hughes

Medium : digital transmission

Description : A triple header special out of Sydney Central station in 1994. That's 5910 first, 3801 second and 3642 third. It was on its way to Unanderra thence Moss Vale thence return to Sydney. (I am indebted to Alan Gaston for supplying further details of this trip.)

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Date : 1973, catalogued 17 Jul 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Kodak Photo CD, slide number 2109

Description :
5910
and
5069
bask in the sun during a Sydney suburban steam jaunt.

5914

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Date : April 1973, catalogued 01 Nov 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : PCD-01/044

Description : End of the road for 5914 at Sim's Metal, Mascot. With her tender cut down to its frame, smokebox and buffer beam gone, soon 5914 will nothing more than a heap of scrap metal, and memories such as this.

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Date : early 1970s, catalogued 03 Jun 2001

Photographer : David McAlpine

Medium : email digital image

Description : I think this is 5914. From what I can make out of the number plates. Anyway, it makes a poignant contrast with my picture of 5914 above. Another classic black and white from David McAlpine.

5915

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Date : Apr 1971, catalogued 01 Nov 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : PCD-01/036

Description : 5915 is admired by the photographer's wife as she stands
simmering
in Gosford Yard. A personal favorite, as this was the first NSWGR steam loco I photographed. Alas, by 1971 there were very few steam locomotives in regular service to photograph!

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Date : Apr 1971, catalogued 01 Nov 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : PCD-01/037

Description : 5915 is a study in working grime, as she awaits her next turn of duty in Gosford yard.

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Date : 16 Sep 1973, catalogued 13 Jan 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 3367

Description : 5915 awaits her fate at Enfield, after being put into storage following the last use of steam on NSWGR. Contrast this picture with the
Gosford
scene.

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Date : 16 Sep 1973, catalogued 21 Jul 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 3363

Description : 5915 awaits her fate at Enfield.

5917

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Date : 1977 (?), catalogued 7 Feb 1997

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium :

Description : 5917 crosses a tributary of Mulwaree Ponds, near Komungla, on the Goulburn-Queanbeyan railway. 5917 had just recently been beautifully restored by the Lachlan Valley Railway Society, and was on loan to the ARHS (ACT Divn) of Canberra.

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Date : Jul 1977, catalogued 22 Feb 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6438

Description : 5917 crosses a tributary of Mulwaree Ponds, near Komungla, on the Goulburn-Queanbeyan railway. 5917 had just recently been beautifully restored by the Lachlan Valley Railway Society, and was on loan to the ARHS (ACT Divn) of Canberra.

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Date : 1977, catalogued 29 Jan 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : 5917 at Butmaroo, slide number 6440

Description : 5917 sets back across the Butmaroo trestle, leaving some very black smoke.

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Date : Nov 1997, catalogued 30 Jan 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : 5917 on Burbong Bridge, slide number 6685

Description : 5917 running tender first across the picturesque Burbong Bridge, on the border of the Australian Capital Territory.

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Date : Jul 1997, catalogued 22 Feb 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6432

Description : 5917 makes a fine display of smoke and steam as she heads towards Joppa Junction, and the branch line to Canberra.

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Date : Nov 1977, catalogued 18 Apr 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Kodachrome 64, slide number 6691

Description : A clean profile of 5917 near Bungendore.

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Date : Jul 1977, catalogued 04 Nov 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6433

Description : 5917 heads south from Goulburn past the Mulwaree Ponds.

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Date : Jul 1977, catalogued 04 Nov 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6442

Description : 5917 near Komungla.

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Date : Jul 1977, catalogued 05 Nov 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 6538

Description : 5917 front end.

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Date : Nov 1977, catalogued 06 Nov 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 6686

Description : 5917 crosses the Burbong Bridge running tender first on a trip to Farrar. Notice the unusually short tenders fitted to the 59 class. This was to allow them to turn on a standard 50 foot turntable, common on many branch lines in NSW.

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Date : Nov 1977, catalogued 07 Nov 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 6689

Description : 5917 returning from a Farrar run.

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Date : Jan 1979, catalogued 15 Jan 2005

Photographer : Brett Fitzpatrick

Medium : email digital image

Description : 5917 passes though Shell Harbour with the return working of a Kiama Beach Tour during January 1979, the trip was one of several run for the Festival of Sydney.

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Date : 1974, catalogued 07 Nov 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6547

Description : After hauling their train to Royalla, 5917 and 3102 have to return tender first to Queanbeyan. Seen here crossing a trestle just north of Royalla.

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Date : Jul 1977, catalogued 08 Oct 2005

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6528

Description : 5917 and 3102 leave a vapour trail in the cold July air, on the way back to Canberra from Royalla.

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Date : Jul 1977, catalogued 29 Jan 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6452

Description : 3102 and 5917 on the picturesque Burbong Bridge, near Canberra.

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Date : Aug 1977, catalogued 29 Jan 1998

Photographer : John Hurst

Medium : Queanbeyan, slide number 6535

Description : 3102 and 5917 run around their train before heading off to Michelago with an ARHS (ACT Divn) special.